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belonging, shall continue limited and settled in the same Manner as the Succession to the Imperial Crown of the said Kingdoms of _Great Britain_ and _Ireland_ now stands limited and settled, according to the existing Laws, and to the Terms of Union between _England_ and _Scotland_. ARTICLE THIRD. [Sidenote: That the United Kingdom be represented in One Parliament.] That it be the Third Article of Union, that the said United Kingdom be represented in One and the same Parliament, to be stiled _The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland._ ARTICLE FOURTH. [Sidenote: That the Number of Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of Commoners herein specified, shall sit and vote on the Part of _Ireland_ in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.] That it be the Fourth Article of Union, that Four Lords Spiritual of _Ireland_ by Rotation of Sessions, and Twenty-eight Lords Temporal of _Ireland_ elected for Life by the Peers of _Ireland_, shall be the Number to sit and vote on the Part of _Ireland_ in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; and One hundred Commoners (Two for each County of _Ireland_, Two for the City of _Dublin_, Two for the City of _Cork_, One for the University of _Trinity College_, and One for each of the Thirty-one most considerable Cities, Towns, and Boroughs), be the Number to sit and vote on the Part of _Ireland_ in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom: [Sidenote: That such Act as shall be passed in _Ireland_ to regulate the Mode of summoning and returning the Lords and Commoners to serve in the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall be considered as Part of the Treaty of the Union.] That such Act as shall be passed in the Parliament of _Ireland_ previous to the Union, to regulate the Mode by which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, to serve in the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the Part of _Ireland_, shall be summoned and returned to the said Parliament, shall be considered as forming Part of the Treaty of Union, and shall be incorporated in the Acts of the respective Parliaments by which the said Union shall be ratified and established: Here follow clauses making provision (1) that the House of Lords shall decide all questions of rotation or election in regard to Peers from Ireland, (2) that Irish Peers not sitting in the Lords may be elected to Commons, but loses thereby all privileges of Peerage, (3) t
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